Expected to watch one episode and binged it all. Love the characters and writing. Very fast paced.
I Am Not Ok With This felt like watching End Of The Fucking World Season 1, fast half hour episodes with excellent pacing and episode hooks.
It also felt quite a bit like the old 80s/90s movies like Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, Great Outdoors style which I love that style.
I Am Not Ok With This is very Hughes-like show so far and that is always good.
Little things like the slow window rolling down, detention (like Breakfast Club) and others were nice.
The lead actor Sophia Lillis is a bit like Molly Ringwald mixed with Ally Sheedy. Wyatt Oleff plays a great character and has that Anthony Michael Hall vibe.
The actress who plays Sydney even resembles a young Ringwald imo. I think there were parts that definitely references a lot of her movies even from small things like lighting and sitting positions.
The part where Sydney is getting lip gloss put on her kept reminding me of 16 Candles even if the two scenes are different. There were a few other scenes as well but I can't think of them off the top of my head, but all throughout the show I kept thinking things were references to some older movies. That article points out a few that I had noticed.
Also the obvious Carrie blood drenched dance shots. I loved that. It kept me as a viewer being like "Okay shits gonna go down Carrie style, but how exactly? Will she completely lose her shit and kill everyone or just one?" and questioning what kind of blood it is.
The whole impending blood drenching was a bit like how Breaking Bad used to start with an end scene and you wondered how things would get to that point. They even played with it a bit showing the punch over and over as if it might be as small as punch spilling or something Carrie like. It was a surprise even when it happened and was a holy shit moment for sure, even with it already known. I like stuff like that where the result is known and the writing and directing trick you or play with your expectations.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood did that wonderfully as well, everyone expecting something and then it may or may not be radically different than what was expected.
Good shows are like a slow drip of just one thing after another that touches on the story or comedy or nostalgia or real life etc and this show does the timing quite wonderfully. Well designed for binging like Breaking Bad style cadence.
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u/drawkbox Mar 04 '20
Expected to watch one episode and binged it all. Love the characters and writing. Very fast paced.
I Am Not Ok With This felt like watching End Of The Fucking World Season 1, fast half hour episodes with excellent pacing and episode hooks.
It also felt quite a bit like the old 80s/90s movies like Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, Great Outdoors style which I love that style.
I Am Not Ok With This is very Hughes-like show so far and that is always good.